New PDF release: A History of Early Al-Andalus: The Akhbar Majmu'a (Culture

By David James

ISBN-10: 041566943X

ISBN-13: 9780415669436

ISBN-10: 1138789240

ISBN-13: 9781138789241

The Akhb?r majm?‘a, or 'Collected Accounts', care for the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and next occasions in al-Andalus, all the way down to and together with the reign of ‘Abd al-Rahm?n III (912-961), founding father of the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus . No Arabic textual content facing the early heritage of al-Andalus has aroused extra controversy, and its contents and beginning have occupied the eye of prime students of Islamic Spain considering the fact that its e-book in 1867.

This publication provides the 1st whole English translation of this key modern textual content, including notes, reviews, appendices and maps. it really is brought by way of a survey of scholarly opinion at the textual content from the 19th to the twenty-first century within which the entire - usually heated - arguments round the textual content are defined. The translator concludes his creation with an in-depth exam of the manuscript containing the single surviving replica of the textual content and provides a few fascinating new facts supplied by way of scribe which has long gone disregarded before. offering new insights into this important Arabic textual content, this publication can be of serious curiosity to students of the historical past of Spain and Portugal, Islamic historical past, and Mediaeval ecu history.

Among the years advert one thousand and 1500, western Christendom absorbed through conquest and attracted via immigration progressively more Jews. This group was once to make a precious contribution to quickly constructing ecu civilisation yet used to be additionally to endure a few poor setbacks, culminating in a sequence of expulsions from the extra complex westerly parts of Europe.

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